Today's Harvest

natural · January 18, 2016

It will drop into the teens here tonight. Figured I had better harvest some veggies. I love harvesting veggies in late January. It feels like some sort of accomplishment at a time when nothing else is happening.

Today's harvest includes brussels spouts, 3 colors of carrots, a few fennel bulbs, scarlet turnips (my favorites) and some heads of romanesco cauliflower. I have lots of greens as well, but I am taking a break from those for a few days.

Looks like I will have an Italian feast tonight.

Bill

ChiliPeppa · January 18, 2016

Beautiful!

RobinB · January 18, 2016

Bill, that's fantastic! I hope that next January, I can post a photo like this!

Deborah · January 18, 2016

Wow! Enjoy dinner!

charline · January 18, 2016

wow, enjoy it!
I too love Romanesco and purple carrots...

natural · January 18, 2016

Thanks everyone!

Charline, the purple carrots are Purple 68 from Johnny's. They are easily the best tasting purple carrot that I have tried. They are sweet and tender even when raw.

This is my first attempt at growing romanesco cauliflower. It is definitely later maturing. My kids love it and they do not like white cauliflower.

natural · January 18, 2016

I forgot to include the italian escarole. They get HUGE. The plate in the photo is a full size dinner plate. One head of escarole dwarfs the plate.

jmsieglaff · January 18, 2016

Impressing looking mid-winter haul! What is the coldest you've been this winter and have you given any of these protection?

sdambr · January 18, 2016

YUM!

natural · January 18, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmsieglaff

Impressing looking mid-winter haul! What is the coldest you've been this winter and have you given any of these protection?

We hit 23 degrees last week for a few nights. I use heavy rowcover on the lettuces. Everything else has survived without protection.

I expect to lose the turnips, cauliflower, broccoli tonight. I harvested most of those today.

I am growing 6 varieties of kale. Each one has a 25 ft long bed. I am specifically checking the cold tolerance of the kales. Most of the kales take a pretty severe hit when we drop below 20.

luigiwu · January 18, 2016

AHmazing!!

AlittleSalt · January 18, 2016

That looks wonderful.

RobinB · January 18, 2016

Bill,
I ordered some "Scarlet Ohno" Turnips from Pinetree. Is that what you're growing? Funny thing about cauliflower and kids. Mine doesn't like the romansco, but likes the white. He picked out some purple (graffitti) to grow out this spring (just to try) and for next fall definitely.

lexxluthor · January 18, 2016

Nice pics.

Worth1 · January 18, 2016

Made me hungry I had to stop and eat.

Worth

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natural Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North GA Posts: 530	Thanks everyone! Charline, the purple carrots are Purple 68 from Johnny's. They are easily the best tasting purple carrot that I have tried. They are sweet and tender even when raw. This is my first attempt at growing romanesco cauliflower. It is definitely later maturing. My kids love it and they do not like white cauliflower.

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jmsieglaff Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Southern WI Posts: 2,742	Impressing looking mid-winter haul! What is the coldest you've been this winter and have you given any of these protection?

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Made me hungry I had to stop and eat. Worth